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Day: September 3, 2008
The US economy is tanking; there is no doubt about it. So why is the Canadian Dollar losing value against the greenback?
At 8:05 a.m. EDT, the Canadian unit was at C$1.0767 to the U.S. dollar, or 92.88 U.S. cents, down from C$1.0686 to the U.S. dollar, or 93.58 U.S. cents, at Tuesday’s close.
Crazy!
Compare that to this:
A Zogby poll on 20 August put Barack Obama five points behind his Republican rival, reversing the seven-point lead the pollster had given him the month before.
Senator McCain 71, now leads Senator Obama by a 46 per cent to 41 per cent margin, according to a latest poll released by Zogby International on Wednesday.
The Canadian Economy is far from faltering (but tottering on the edge) with Canada being a major exporter of Oil and other natural resources. One wonders if perhaps the Tories have not done enough to nationalize the value of said resources? As nominal conservatives; the idea must seem anathema to their ethos of spend and cut instead of tax and spend. Then there is the whole idea of Canada getting involved in the US’s War on Terriers. Canada isn’t a target for international terrorism, it’s hardly even a splash damage candidate, why get involved at all until the shooting is over and Canadian peacekeepers can “keep the peace”
Yet, here we are. Canadians and Americans seem determined to vote in another series of Conservatives, and the eagerness of the timing of Harper’s (broken promise) election is eerily like a coordinated plan to make a solid bloc of Conservative governments in the West (the UK is heading for a Tory victory too) with the Russians getting poked with a sharp stick like they are, we are looking like a return to the Thatcher and Reagan era.
Are people really this stupid?
Obama is no savior, he’s barely (at least rhetorically) a left winger; he’s about 2 degrees from McCain rhetorically; but McCain is the servant of some very sinister paymasters, whereas Obama is more of a stooge for Capatalists.
Wondrously dangerous times indeed.
Look at this dispatch from America; and doubt that the conservative political machine has gone out of control:
The Richland County (S.C.) Sheriff’s Department has acquired an armored personnel carrier complete with a turret-mounted .50-caliber belt-fed machine gun for its Special Response Team.
Sheriff Leon Lott told the Columbia State newspaper that he hoped the vehicle, named “The Peacemaker,” would let the bad guys know that his officers are serious.
“We don’t look at this as a killing machine,” Lott told the paper. “It’s going to keep the peace. We hope the fact that we have this is going to save lives. When something like this rolls up, it’s time to give up.”
The Peacemaker has a top speed of 30 mph.
You see the reasoning there; we have a giant gun and a tank and we are going to use them. This is military hardware in the hands of the police as a response to the “out of control” levels of resistance they are experiencing. Which is of course a fallacy; I haven’t seen a single report of anti-tank weapons used in police firefights (please correct me if I am wrong).
This is the country that is not going to elect Obama, not because he is black (which is probably why 25-35 percent of them won’t), not because he is a Democrat (25 percent of Americans still think Pres. Bush is doing a great job, they will vote for McCain if he eats a Jewish baby on stage, it’s best to just ignore them) the majority of the remaining 40-50 percent are scared. They are scared of the future and think that the rhetoric of the people who have scared them for the past 8 years will come to pass and they will vote a nearly straight Republcian ticket and get the government they deserve.
The same is true for the Canadian dollar, the dollar is a strong alternative to the Greenback, but as Canada is tied so closely to the fate of the American Endeavor (through the strong economic and social ties that have been formed) The loony falls on the whims of the US rhetoric, which is as changeable as the wind and rooted in fear, not hope.
To the Ron Paul Supporters
Published by NiteMayr on September 3, 2008I’m not sure any of you people actually know what Ron Paul espouses. He wants to do away with the Fed, the Faa, the department of education, fema, etc… He’s the Grover Norquist candidate…. not the freedom candidate.
Check out his platform if you don’t believe it: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/politics/2008/bios/view.bg?articleid=1063101
Pro-Life Republican all the way, doesn’t really support individual except in the “Get it done yourself” kind of support. Anti-stem cell research, Anti-Social Security, Pro-Bush Tax Cuts.
It seems the only thing Ron Paul breaks with the Republican Party as whole on is the Iraq War and Capital Punishment, given the rest of his stances, I think that may have more to do with Costs than anything else.
It should be clear (by reading his platform) that Ron Paul doesn’t support individual freedom, he supports “Individual Enterprise”, which isn’t really about freedom, it’s about competing with everyone else all the time. That’s not “society”, that’s “business” and society isn’t business. This becomes especially important to note when we are talking about health care, where he espouses that individuals should negotiate with the HMOs (etc) on their own.
Have you ever tried to negotiate with a large corporation who has a monopoly in your area? How do you negotiate when the HMO that services your are is one of two or three that don’t REALLY compete. The Government has moved to allow more competition between HMOs in the US, have health care costs really gone down?
What about self-regulating airports?
How about private police forces?
Toll roads everywhere!
The business of government is to maintain civil society by service and protection, some people have forgotten this; especially the politicians themselves. It seems that people have bought the line that the government is a business, subject to shareholder dividends in the form of actual cash and not services. So, Ron Paul supporter, are you a supporter of Freedom or a supporter of Individual Enteprise?